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Osaka Hat
We named this hat after the bustling, oceanside city of Osaka. The Seigaiha wave crest pattern is a traditional geometric motif that represents good luck. ‘Seigaiha’ means ‘blue sea and waves.’
The Osaka Hat pattern works best in a two colours of fingering-weight yarn in differing hues and values. Here, I used an azure blue as the main colour, and a speckled white as the contrast colour. Even though we designed this in fingering weight yarn, the foldover brim and the double layer of yarn in the colourwork ensures that it will be warm.
Blue and white are classic colours, but you can use whichever high-contrast colours you want. It’s important to use colours that are solid or tonal. Variegated yarn can hide the stitch pattern.
Level of Difficulty: Intermediate
Sizing: Toddler, Child, and Adult
Yarn:
Main colour: 100 - 150 m fingering weight wool yarn
Contrast colour: 50 - 70 m fingering weight wool yarn
Sample shows 1 skein of Koigu KPM in blue and 1 skein of Koigu KPPPM in speckled white
Needles:
2.5 mm 40 cm / 16” circulars, for ribbing
3.0 mm 40 cm / 16” circulars and dpns, or size required to get gauge
Notions:
Tapestry needle
Stitch markers
Gauge:
30 sts and 40 rows in stitch pattern = 10 cm / 4”
Stitches Used:
K: knit
P: purl
s2kp2: slip 2 stitches, knit 1, pass 2 stitches over (centred double decrease)
Tip:
Use stitch markers to mark the pattern repeats.
Keep your floats from getting too tight by pausing to space out the stitches on the right needle every 10 stitches or so.
For CC to be dominant, hold the strand of CC yarn to the left and under the strand of MC yarn for rows 1-43. Hold MC dominant for rows 44-53.
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